Bar & Junior Common Room
Van Mildert has a bar which is extensively used by members of the college, as well as by students from other colleges. In recent years, the college bar has won the 'University Bar' category of the Best Bar None awards for Durham City for the 2008-09 and 2010-11 academic years. The Junior Common Room, or JCR lounge, is used for holding JCR meetings and many of the social events that are organised by the JCR. For example bops, discos after formal dinners, band nights and amateur theatre productions. Both rooms have large plasma screen TVs which are used to show major sporting fixtures during the academic term.
The College has a host of other social facilities, most notably a music/recording suite with drums, grand piano and recording equipment. The College also has a gym, computer room, shop, tennis court and a full-size snooker table.
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